On March 24, 2023, in Saint-Lô (Manche), the security guard of a supermarket, alerted by a customer, intercepted a man who was trying to go through the checkouts while having hidden a bottle of whiskey in his pants.
The man then agrees to come and reimburse the price of the bottle. A debt which he never came to pay, and which made him answer for acts of theft, Tuesday November 5, before the Coutances criminal court.
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An appearance from the remand center
Aged 42, the man appeared using the videoconference procedure from the Caen remand center (Calvados), where he is currently detained for another reason. I wanted to please myself
declares the defendant, arguing that despite his criminal record which shows 18 mentions, he is well on the way to reintegration, already benefiting from the semi-liberty regime.
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According to the requisitions of the prosecutor's attorney, the forty-year-old was sentenced to a 60-day fine of €2. Each unpaid day fine will earn him that many days of imprisonment.
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